# Rattlesnake Butte

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rattlesnake-butte/
- Also known as: Rattlesnake Mountain
- Kind: Landmark rocks, buttes and mountains
- Status: Living today
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1974, -104.8438 (USGS GNIS point for the feature itself (a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Butte near Greenland, 'named for the large amount of rattlesnakes found on it' (Larkspur Historical Society, 'Ranch Echo,' S-0045); an old wagon road on it 'was used in hauling out the building stone' (Greenland binder, 1957 students' history, S-0005, pp. 32, 46). The Castle Rock Journal reported a seven-foot rattlesnake killed a mile north of Greenland in 1885 (quoted on the same Larkspur Historical Society page, S-0045).

## Where it was

USGS GNIS summit 'Rattlesnake Butte', Douglas County (2021 Colorado file, S-0007). Good to a few hundred feet.

## Sources

- S-0005: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0005
- S-0006: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0006
- S-0007: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0007
- S-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045

## Nearby

- [Johnson Ranch (Greenland Stock Farm)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/johnson-ranch-greenland-stock-farm/): 0.5 mi south
- [Nimerick Ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/nimerick-ranch/): 0.7 mi northeast
- [Coal shed (?)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/coal-shed/): 0.8 mi west
- [Greenland Ranch headquarters](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-ranch-headquarters/): 0.9 mi southwest
- [Greenland School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-school/): 1.1 mi southwest
- [Greenland Grange No. 52](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/greenland-grange-no-52/): 1.1 mi southwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.